Vanderbilt is a marquee scribe, with credits including Zodiac, several Spider-Man movies (including the upcoming franchise reboot) and Total Recall. He also just booked a rewrite gig on MGM’s Robocop remake. Still, the $3 million tag surprised many observers, especially considering there is no stars attached.

Vanderbilt also is attached to produce White House along with Bradley Fischer and Laeta Kalogridis,his partners at production shingle Mythology. Vanderbilt is repped by WME and McKuin Frankel.

White House Down is described as being tonally and thematically like Die Hard and Air Force One.